This is just a “link”:http://lemmingsblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/apa-report-status-of-women-in.html to Brit’s report. Here are a couple of highlights.

bq. 21% of employed philosophers are women (Kathryn Norlock)

bq. 2004 US Department of Education estimates 41% of those employed in the humanities are women.

bq. Philosophy PhDs awarded: 27% (and stuck there for the last ten years or so, with a spike to 33.3% in 2004, 25.1% in 2005).

bq. Survey of Degrees Awarded (SED) 2005 figures. History 41%, Astronomy and physics 26%, Economics: 30%, Political Science 39%.

I was worried we were as bad as engineering in terms of percentage of PhDs who are women. (I read enginnering was at 18%.) It seems we are between physics and economics. I suspect that restricting attention to analytic philosophy makes our position look much worse, maybe as bad as engineering…